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Help me improve Snagit…
In my humble opinion (but running this blog, perhaps a little biased) Snagit is as good as software can be. And I know many readers agree. But as someone once said, there is always room for improvement. That’s why I am curious as to what you would like to add if/when Snagit 9.0 is released.
I will send all comments to the Snagit development team so please include any additions to Snagit that you have thought about, are missing, you would like to add and so on. Please pour your heart out in the comment section below!
If you have colleagues, friends and family using Snagit, please ask them to put in their 5 cents here too.
The popular cliché “think outside the box” is perhaps true, but sometimes it’s easier to “think inside the box” so here is a basic breakdown of areas/functions you may have ideas about or want to change:
- Graphic interface. Is it easy to use, could it be improved, perhaps a complete new layout? Do you have any other software products that you think has a great layout that Snagit could benefit from looking at and so on. Share your ideas.
- Capture functionality. Are there any capture modes you feel are missing? Could there be other changes to the capture functionality. Is it easy enough to set up new capture profiles and so on?
- Editing functionality. What about editing your screen captures, do you use the Snagit Editor, what should be changed in the editor?
- Sharing functionality. Like to share your images with others, if so – how?
- Add-ons. Any software you would like to have an output available directly from inside Snagit.
- Other areas. Any other areas that you feel improvements would be helpful.
OK, I’ll go first…
Here are a few of the things I would like to see improved.
About the interface
I like the Snagit 8 interface, but I would like the software to remember my favorite profiles and steps I have taken to create a profile.
For example when doing screen captures for my blogs I often like to decrease the file size to 75%, set up a shadow and save it in png. After I have done this a couple of times perhaps the software can ask if I would like to make this a Capture Profile.
Editing Functionality
I dream of when will Snagit incorporate layers. If you have done any work with Photoshop you know what I mean. Let’s say you have worked with adding elements to your image, perhaps Text, Stamps or Callouts and you would like to remove one of the elements that you included earlier. Now you can choose to step back in the editor and remove everything that you added until you have backed all the way up to the element that you want to remove.
It would be lovely just being able to click on the element you wish to remove and remove it.
More Snagit Editor improvements
I work a lot with the editor and I love the new glassy callouts and similar effects released in I believe Snagit 8.2. It would be great to have more shadow and “button” effects could be added to the editor.
If you have looked at the effects in SmartDraw you know what I mean. The Image here show the SmartDraw shadow effects. Check out SmartDraw 2008.
Another great edit feature would be if I could save a number of steps when editing and perform them as one function. Kind of like the Capture profiles, but in a specific order.
So now it’s your turn, please comment below and let us know what improvements you are looking for.
Talk to you soon 😉
Peter – Your Snagit Guide
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i agree with you a lot!
here is what i’d like improved:
1) an Add-on to export out to Evernote. I love Evernote and I’d like to see it be easy to go from SnagIt to it.
2) better IM support. the current support for Live (MSN) never works for me. 🙁 So I use Jing
3) integration with (or of) Jing!
4) save vector content in catalog for future edits. doing a manual is teadious enough. making a mistake on number 33 of 100 screen captures would be eased if you could save the vector content.
5) flag for numbering steps. currently i use the ellipse making it a circle and then i add the text. it would be nice to have that simplified.
6) the ability to save shapes with properties (i.e. color, size, proportion, etc). i often use the same shape and color. it would be nice to be able to add a button for that on so i don’t have to remember which properties i used last time.
thanks snagit team and techsmith!!!
After I capture an image and want to edit it I first have to “save” then it disappears! (Closes)
Is this normal or is there a way round it? can I just save and start editing immediately i.e without going back to re-open the image for editing??
Could this be included as an improvement for Version 9??
Itwould be nice if we could save the file in some kind of a snagit format. So we could later come back and modify a capture without having to recreate it, kindda like a photoshop psd i guess
Love your program but desperately need a Mac version!
Also, at our architectural firm we use Snagit for screen captures a lot. It would be good to have some control over the quality of the capture. Some of our monitors are pretty good but the capture image sometimes looks less crisp.
PS: desperately need a Mac version (in case I have not mentioned it enough)
A way of adding narration, or an audio segment, needs to be incorporated right into SnagIt. We’re diving heavily into narrated online tutorials. DubIt is okay but needs to be merged with SnagIt. Any dubbing software must be seamless and easy to use.
So many people like myself use PowerPoint. Snag-It is my #1 tool for building PowerPoint presentations. It would be really nice to have quick button that sends the current capture directly to the open slide being constructed in PowerPoint.
SnagIt is one of the best apps I’ve ever been introduced to.
I use the software alot for documenting bugs in software programs, highlighting Crystal Reports screens (I am a Crystal Reports consultant) and the like.
The one thing I can think of right now is appending one capture to another in the editor.
So if I want to capture two screens (lets say REGION mode), I do the first region capture and it inserts the region into Editor. I’d like to immediately capture another region, and have it append the image under the first in the editor.
SNAG IT FOR MAC …yes, I’m shouting ’cause you don’t seem to be listening.
Oh nearly forgot….please !!!!
I would be happy just to be able to transfer a screen shot directly into Outlook. We had to uninstall the additions to Word, etc. Copy and paste doesn’t work from Snagit to Outlook 2003.
Make it work with Mac
Hello Daniel
You already have that option. Simply save the file as a .snag file
Cheers
Jerry 🙂
One thing I would love to have is the ability to do multiple captures without having to save the files.
I use the PrtScn shortcut key to perform captures. There are often time I need to do captures from multiple areas and combine them into one.
As it is right now, once I have performed a Capture, if I go to a screen and hit PrtScn again, it performs another capture and replaces the pervious one with no warning.
If it could open a second Snagit Window for the second capture or do similar to Excel where you can click Window in the menu bar and see all the open files so you could switch between them.
Better yet, have multiple Tabs in the main window of Snagit similar to Internet Explorer 7.
I capture Google Maps and would like to make annotations, measure distances between objects, and calculate polygons. The drawing features are 4 on scale of 10 (4/10) and of those the polygon is a 1/10 because it is not possible to close the polygon.
There are portions of a website that I would like to capture including the links and transport those items into NETWORK SOLUTIONS webdesign interface. NETWORK SOLUTIONS would probably allow you to feature SNAGIT as an upload feature like they do with YOUTUBE and WIDGETS.
I would like to be able to capture long web pages without Snagit giving me an error message. Some longer internet pages will not capture.
I would like to be able to tell SnagIt which programs I would like to export my captures.
While you may have added the utility without me being aware, simple dragging of a variable diagonal on a rectangle with a preset fixed proportion or ratio of sides would be a great feature (eg. for many features of photo editing).
I want the ability to have one capture screen open and choose from multiple screens or images. This would be similar to the region capture with multiple areas. Instead it would be region with multiple docuements or add regions from other screens to the current capture screen.
When I need to put together a screen of information I have to capture then paste into a word document then capture more and paste into the word document. When I have all of my images or information I then have to capture it back into snagit where I can make my final changes.
I would also like to see a Mac Version.
The scrolling interface seems at times unreliable.
It spits out a very brief message suggesting changes to the profile.
while it can be a nuisance in a crisis, it’s otherwise not a problem.
I’d be interested in a MacOS version of Snagit.
I’ll second the IM integration, especially with OCS.
Layers are key. Any elements added should be presented as layers on top of the original capture.
How about adding the ability to auto-expand the canvas based on where annotations are placed? Many times you want to annotate around the image and having a default white background drop in when you add annotations in the editor outside of the image would be helpful.
This may be hard, but I wouldlike to see snag-it capture the WHOLE screen…with some smaller screens 15′ inches. If you want to capture a part of the screen that is not visible, you have to do it in two parts then paste them together. Anyway, worth a shot.
When editing, real estate on the screen is precious and limited. The GUI wastes gobs of it, with a vertical tool area on each side of the screen. Further, both of the vertical tool areas waste not only the vertical dimension but also gobs of the horizontal dimension, because their widths can be made larger but not smaller. The result is a postage-stamp sized work area that inflicts serious injuries, with the vertical and horizontal scroll bars. I’d love to be able to adjust the widths of the vertical tool areas to dimensions much smaller than the current limits.
The edge-effect tool does not persist. I never know up front which of the possible choices I’m going to end up keeping, whenever I use the edge-effect tool. I always have to try multiple possibilities, before I find the one that serves my need of the moment. Having the the tool jump to the next step of its process, immediately after an edge-effect is clicked, makes it very difficult for me to compare the various edge-effects.
The canvas sizing tool works differently when sizing from the left of the target area, than it works when sizing from the right of the target area. When sizing the canvas from the right, the RH handle of the canvas must remain external to the target area, or the target area loses its right-most column of pixels. When sizing from the left of the target area, the LF handle of the canvas must be brought inside the target area. If the LF handle is left just outside of the target area, the result is a target area with an unwanted column of pixels on its left edge.
The same problem exists when sizing the vertical dimension of the canvas.
I love SnagIt and use it a ton. Great ideas…I would love to see any of these available in the program.
I’m often on the receiving end of a capture, and will often find misspellings, so a spellchecker would be great. And, as long as I am making my wishlist, a callout balloon with multiple pointers would be great (instead of needing to use the arrows).
Thanks!
I like your ideas……
but would like to see a Linux/Mac version also
I purchased Snagit in order to be able to capture a specific area of a DOS screen and send that text to a lable printer. I never could get it to work so I have never used it. If you could make the program do that I would be a happy guy!!
I would really like to delete the background of an image and make it transparent. Cropping is okay with some screenshots, but I’d like to add a bubble and have it hang off the side of the image with the background of the image transparent. Would come in really handy with my website design.
I would like to be able to resize SnagIt files & have them resize as clean as the original capture.
I’m using SnagIt with PowerPoint frequently and it is a bit of a hassel to have to save to the clipboard then import into PowerPoint. So, a previous suggestion of a direct import into any of the MS Office suite of products is great.
One other thing I’ve found is when importing an image into Outlook, sometimes the receiver cannot see that image, so it means I need to change the image into a bitmap. It could be there is a fix for this already, if so, I don’t know it.
Otherwise, this is a super product and in my office used daily!
I do a lot of photography work as a hobby. It’s not a day that I do not use snagit at some point. Snagit is a all-n-one perfect program. I use snagit just to change a file ext. on a pic file that has nothing to do with snagit. To me, having snagit is like having a cell phone. The only thing I can’t do is the Hot Shots. I just do not know how to make that work, with mouse over. You mat could clearify that a bit better. But keep up the GOOD work snagit.
Bobby Pickett
My only wish is for a Mac version.
I would like to be able to select a region even when only part of it is visible on the screen at once (ie. scrolling is required to see all of it). That doesn’t seem to work now.
Yes Please. Another vote for a Mac version.
Love the tutorials….please don’t ever stop them! They are espeically helpful for those of us who are elders plus not as computer savvy as so many of your users are.
Simplify Snagit…
I find it confusing, way more confusing to use than CaptureWiz Pro whbich I have also.
I am sad and depressed that I am unable to use SnagIt with Windows Vista Business. After a lot of time spent with support folks at SnagIt, I was forced to completely uninstall the software and find another one that would function with my OS. I don’t like it nearly as well, but I am using it anyway. It’s called FastStone Capture.
I miss my SnagIt!
i wish to have snagit with an optical pen for the airbrush function, instead of having to use the mouse
Only one wish: a MAC version
In the editor I would like the ability to select an area and then use the eraser within that area so that the result is much neater and sharper than my manual attempts. Also I would like to be able to open more than one file at one time so that I can tab between them.
Love, love, love this product
Love the product the way it is and like the above suggestions BUT I really need a Mac version!!!!
MAC VERSION!
But…. My english friend say,s everything I send him that has been ‘Snagged’ screws up his UK PC?
I am going to the UK next week for a vacation to see what his beef is and will advise when I get back. Don.S
I´m new to Snagit and not yet enough accustomed to it, so I wonder whether it is/could be made possible to export directly to MS Works (I found MS Office, not Works). Anyhow, as such the program is great. Congratulations.
I would like a free-style capture option so I don’t have to use the eraser to modify a capture that has a lot of unwanted background when it does it rectangularly.
Otherwise, it’s great!!
I haven’t read all that others have written but I agree I can’t find enough good to say about snagit. I use it many times every day. I love Camtasia too.
One thing I have often wished for is a way to capture more than one thing in separate editor windows and then combine them. I saw the post about layers, and that would meet my need, but I don’t need the complexity of layers to get what I want. I would be happy if the two images fused irretrievably once I got them into the same window and positioned correctly.
Thanks for doing this.
Gabor
I wanted to read all of the inputs but I am short of time right now. So i will tell you what I would add, it’s simple. I have lost a few captures I was working on because someone interrupted me, I forgot where I was and went on to make another capture. The first capture and all my work was lost. Probably a temp file -with layers —great idea!!! — should be saved at specified intervals.
NUMBER 2 ND MORE DIFFICULT: There is something I have tried to do and it doesn’t., poor me. Make it capture video ! Let’s say I am watching a small video on the screen, and I want a small portion of it… Or a Powerpoint presentation, anything that has movement. That would be great! I don’t want to waste the time redoing it. I just want a piece of it, etc…
We use it for training coursses, that is our application.
You have a great program and It is great that you are looking foward to improving the greatest program. I have not even scratched the program yet and maybe my requests are somewear in this version. Please let me know if this is true.
This economy is going down the tubes with this administration, sorry about the political outlook. The concern I have is what are the new improved programs going to cost me, limited income that I have. If you can help with a great upgrade price you will get wonderful word of mouth advertising that will get to new customers and show how you appreciate the current customers.
More companies are getting greedy with a year of upgrades that is nice but I start looking at the competition when the year is up. I think up grades that are limited to the current version number is OK and some companies have resorted to new versions with just minor changes, I have dropped them from my upgrade list and just stick with the program I have.
The wish list looks like a major upgrade may be warranted.
I would like Snagit to one click record any tutorial that runs on my screen.
Is there a way to illuminate the black background with white letters or, just have an oppition to reverse the background and font color, of some of the tutorials I download? If you can do that can you change the color to anything I choose, All tutorials for Photoshop would be in green and all Tutorials for 3D programs in dark blue?
I have just two requests.
1) Please make this work for Mac.
2) When you make it work for Mac, please add their “Instant Alpha” functionality.
those two items would make me love Snagit more than I do now.
I stopped using snagit when I moved to a mac in January…
So please make it MAC compatible!
Snagit. Great tool, great product! Love it. However, image captures don’t look as sharp as they were before capture. I thought I was the only one with this problem. If you could work on that as well, I certainly would love it more.
I’d like to see a feature that allows the capture of short videos (like on Facebook or You Tube. This would be mostly for insertion into PowerPoint presentations.
It’s a great product. However the setting up how and where files are to be saved is a dreadfully slow and time wasting business.
e.g. I like all my files saved in a certain folder on my data partition as a .jpg with the automatic date etc.. With SnagIt you have to set-up each profile separately and what is even more irritating is that you have to re-locate the folder where you want it saved each time as SnagIt reverts to it’s standard settings each time. It should be possible to to just set-up one profile and choose that as a standard for all profiles and than if you later want to change one you can still do so.
I am working on the company website. I want to snag a web page, change the text within the page then print for review by the owners before requesting the changes from our website producer. I don’t want to add a text box, just simply change the wording on the actual page. Is this an option that I have missed or something that can be added to the update. I don’t like the use of text boxes.
I almost forgot. I used Snagit at my last place of employment. Loved it so much that I had Fab Weld LLC. purchase it for my use here.
I agree with a couple of comments above. A MAC version is a must. I use Grab but it is so limited. The other item needed is options for saving sharper images.
The addition of video capture would also be nice.
Several recommendations:
1) Change the size of the ‘Taking Your Capture’ window by either removing the help-text or increasing the size of the crosshair region (height and width). This would allow for a more precise capture in corners of extended images that fall above/below or right/left, instead of having to edit the image immediately afterword; i.e., a clean shot at initial capture. Presently, during some screen shots, the capture/cross-hair window focuses on a section that is just out of view, leaving the user unsure if a boundary or item on the screen was in the corner.
2) Add more than one iteration of the SnagIt Editor. This would allow easier edits between active images. Presently, with only the single Editor window capability I’m having to paste my editing images into the Capture window, when another instance of the Editor would suffice. This would make editing multiple images of the same subject or screen less time-consuming.
3) Fix the Scrolling Window feature. It is not consistent, perhaps incorporating the arrow keys to get it going, instead of the strict mouse constraints. presently, it either errors out or doesn’t want to stop once it goes, and then it gets lost in alphabet heaven (the Davy Jones Locker for programs…they never come back and give you what you started with).
…a comment about an entry I saw in the list, about DOS sessions. The DOS sessions work just fine…just use the DOS-shell. This works well for the Linux and text-based screens. One drawback is the precison of the capture, i.e., getting the corners just right (see comment 1 above).
Additionally, add an frame or picture frame option into borders when editing images; perhaps with textures. This would be just as valuable as the 3D border option, which would be helpful with web images that could use a border of some type, instead of having to do multiple edits on an image with other programs.
Same comment all the other Mac users:love your program but desperately need a Mac version.
I use Snagit all day long at work but when I get home, I am lost without it. I have not found any program for the Mac that comes even close to what Snagit does.
Would like ability to control left-right or up-down scrolling with keyboard while using mouse to indicate capture area. Similar to existing scrolling for web page, but with more control.
Also would like to have scrolling capability during capture of other apps (e.g. a spreadsheet).
My wishlist of Snagit 9 addon features:
1.Lite version of Camtasia Studio especially in capturing video with sound feature.
2.Selectable resolution capturing capability.
3.Translation/conversion capability i.e. Djavu/Image/Lit file to PDF.
Thank you.
Without asking for the impossible I am pleased with Snagit. I have not used it as much as I plan to now so perhaps I may have more usefull suggestions in the near future. I find it user friendly for my purposes
Currently Snag it works for me and it is great at what it does. Personally I would be careful in how you load up the program with too many features and lose sight of its core value.
I love your program and the value to price is perfect. Great job!!!!
Currently, you are unable to use the “discard identical captures” function of the capture timer when you add a caption to your capture.
I read over the current proposals and cannot think of anything else to add. Some of the ones already mentioned such as being able to change the back ground to transparent and to be able to resize SnagIt files & have them resize as clean as the original capture would be great.
Thanks
Actually, I managed to think of something that I would like to do in Snagit. Is it possible to create the text in say a text editor, and then copy/cut and paste that into a Snagit capture’s text box?
I get notes in emails which I would like to add to the capture.
Best improvement you could make for Snag-IT would be to port to the Mac platform…
I’ve abandoned Windows completely and am dismayed that there is no Mac equivalent…sure there are screen capture programs for the Mac but NONE with the featureset and ease-of-use that I’ve come to take for granted with Snag-IT.
Good luck
We’ve just moved to Macs, so Snag It for Mac would be great. Saw it on the list any updates?
I am swamped and have not had time to go to the Development site but I would say this. I have tested SEVERAL other products which were supposedly “top rate” and they were OK but I have not found this product lacking for anything.
It is well known in the Development & support community and well received. Most folks I know of either own (or wish they owned) this product. It is well thought out and well conceived and performs as expected.
Maybe I don’t know how to operate Snagit properly but if I output to e-mail and do not know the e-mail address of whom I wish to send the snagit picture to I have a problem un less I have written down the e-mail address .
Software that reduces stress & allows for a more enjoyable lifestyle.Very Best Wishes
I am a principal in an architectural firm that relies heavily on collaboration via web sites. We currently are forced (we as in our office and client base) to use Adobe Acrobat PDF and their mark up tools are very poor compared to Snag It.
I would like to move everybody into using snag it for these mark up reviews. My wish. To open PDF files in snag it, to have a pricing structure that I can have all my clients use snag it for reviews.
Snagit really meets all of my needs, and is definitely one of my favorite tools, but one thing I was just thinking about yesterday was a method to pre-define a crop size. Suppose I wanted to crop a rectangle area from 10 different screen shots, and wanted them to be cut in the same exact size (say to fit them together in a new image). So, instead of using the pointer to create the boundaries to snag, you would use the pointer to place the pre-set range on top of an image. This would be applicable to just Region snag’ing I assume.
I tell people that Snagit is the best software for the price, I use every day!
There is only one request I would make, and that is to allow the user to rotate text, ideally a freeform tool to rotate at any angle, but perhaps another option in the text dialog window to specify common angles (90 as default).
Not sure if it can be done but if snag-it had a corner rounding function that would be very useful to us.
I wish that Snagit would snag stuff out of PDF files. Text in one snag and graphics in another one.
How about ‘independent’ horizontal & vertical lines to act as guides during Perspective & Shear operations on captured images of buildings.
I am a recent convert from XP to OSX Leopard, and and 98% satisfied with my decision to drop windows. My only negative experience so far, has been the fact that there is no comparable application that can compete in screen capturing with Snag It. From scrolling regions to “complete page” captures, you just can’t beat it. When can we expect a mac version of this MOST USEFUL software?
I’d like;
– Invert mask (mark an area, invert the mask to exclude it)
– An output to the Outlook 2007 Message Editor, it’s not Word (but it is) so the Word one doesn’t work.
When capturing using “Auto Scroll Window”:
It Scrolls from Top to Bottom. Great!
But doesn’t scroll Left to Right.
An Example of requiring Left to Right plus Top to bottom is when doing:
“MS Windows – Run/msconfig”
The configuration window is so narrow that it is difficult to comprehend the information at hand.
Windows XP is tolerable but Windows Vista has twice as much info per horizontal line.
Impossible to comprehend.
It would be great if Snagit could capture the full width plus top to bottom which would allow reading each full line.
Hugh
I do not know if my way at looking what a Snagit system should be is correct.
I purchased on Snagit from you so time back.
I have not really worked it I just covered my immediate need.
I under stand that you try to cover all the ways that you can envision that a user would be looking for.
Speaking for my self, this is what would be the best for me.
1/ Working on a WORD documents, Photo Shop and XL
2/ Need picture or a block of text from an other document located on the net or in any of my files.
3/ I will bring up the host document.
4/ I will activate the Snagit program by clicking on its logo located in edge of the screen.
5/ My screen only shows just my document and a small indicator at the edge telling me that Snagit is ready to act.
6/ Clicking on that indicator changes my cursor to an arrow.
7/ Using it, I would snag the text, or picture, to be moved to a holding place or directly on to my document.
8/ Now I should be able to size and rotate the image before it becomes part of my document.
My lack of computer skills are plane and clear.
I get very confused with all that comes on to the screen, color shapes etc are confusing. What you have is most likely what most skilled computer users like and needs.
If the snagit also could act as an eraser. Snag an area and then remove it using point by point lassoing the area on interest.
You most likely have all the mentions features in the current Snagit. if so I apologize.
I use computers as tools.
everything just works fine for me except a the shadow effect.
I would want a shadow effect across all the edges of the snapshot taken with snagit9 which is not possible this time with snagit8.
Snagit is an absolutely awesome product.. I have been using it on both my
work and home computer for a long time .. and in terms of my job-related
presentations, it is an indispensable tool….
Some suggestions for Release 9 are:
• can the background be changed from black to some other lighter color (just
like Office 2007 offers silver and blue)
• can the overall font size of the GUI be changed. I realize that so many of
these new products are made for the wide-screen, larger monitors, but they
are quite an eyeful for a regular 15 inch laptop
• Stamps – how about flags and country shapes?
Keep up the great work at Techsmith!
I’ve posted this request elsewhere, but I’ll repeat it here if you don’t mind.
I dearly wish SnagIt would be able to capture a circular image and then let me work with it as a CIRCLE, not as a circle within a rectangular capture box. Since the product already has the capability to let me draw a perect circle around something on the screen and capture it, why can’t I work with it AS a circle, not a circle within a box? If SnagIt added this feature, I could easily create buttons with beveling, shading, etc., without having to do any cumbersome cropping.
Thank you for a great product.
Without going through all the comments, here’s my take on why I’m *NOT* upgrading to version 9:
– The *one* feature I miss most on SnagIt is being able to “work with layers”; not necessarily with “layers” as in “Photoshop (TM) layers”, but being able to add/remove selections and re-do a blur with a bit more/less of the snapshot being blurred. Currently, something as simple as selecting “undo” after doing a blur with multiple selections will even clear the selections and I have to start all over again… I’ll keep skipping upgrades until I can do some *serious* and improved edits: everything else v 8.2 does as good as I need…
– I absolutely and positively *hate* the “stack on the left side” of SnagIt 9! I work from left to right and having the “first” screenshots on the right messes up my workflow, so I’ll either have to do one screen at a time as in v 8.x or keep re-arranging the snapshots, neither of which is worth the upgrade no matter how cheap.
Just my 0.02 worth! 🙂
I would like to second Scott’s request for rotating text. I LOVE SnagIt and would have upgraded from Ver. 8 if it had included rotating text. Maybe in 9.1?????
The ability to remove the SnagIt icon from the context menu in Explorer.
SnagIt needs an OCR engine so when we capture text from a non-text window then it uses OCR to recognize the characters. That will be really useful.
I Love SnagIt!!!
Kodak Easy Share (which is free) has the functionalty, that you can click on a grey area, and it removes the bad incidence of light on photos. I would love to see that functionalty in Snag It.
What I really miss are the key shortcuts. With version 9 you can only go 2 steps deep.
But it is still a great product.
Love SnagIt and have replaced TNT with it (mostly). Only thing that irritates me is that the OneClick popup menu seems a little unreliable. It quietly sits at the edge of the screen most of the time but, over the course of the day, seems to get ‘lost’ under other open windows. So, when I need it most, it’s not there until I start closing or minimising windows. If it could be more reliable, that would be good.
It would also be useful to be able to take a screen shot from within the editor. A drop down with the same options as OneClick that caused the editor to minimise and a screen shot to be taken would allow me to concentrate on the editor rather than the sometimes-there popup menu.
Still a terrific product. Oh yes, and I don’t particularly want a MAC version. (Joking!)
Don’t know if this has been mentioned, but I’d like to be able to edit and delete the default “Styles”.
Sure, I can add “Quick Styles”, but I’m basically lazy. I’d rather pick from the first row of styles rather than having to navigate all the way down to the bottom of the styles list to see my favorites.
Otherwise, this continues to be the best utility I’ve ever used! At least 20 other people are using SnagIt based on my recommendation.
When I embed SnagIt screen captures in an email, the text is unreadable and the images hardly recognizable. However, if I do a regular copy / paste I don’t have such a problem. Bottom line — SnagIt is useless for such email embeds. Need a way to improve the readablity of screen captures.
I’d like to see a profile or a way to capture a window/screen with a scrolling menu. Many times I need to capture a screen shot of software that contains a drop down menu and I need to have the ability to have that scroll and capture the entire contents of the drop down menu while still capturing the window behind it.
Unless I’m missing a way to already do this…I’ve searched and tried various ways.
I’d like to be able to have the ability to macro or automate some steps. I’ll often generate a screenshot, mark it up and then I flatten the objects so I can shrink it to 75%. If I could have a button to flatten and then shrink to 75% that would save me clicks.
A way to save all the captured images to a folder. I’m loosing my image if I close the (internal) window in the editor.
Integration with SAP R/3.
I would like to see a version where Snag-it could be used from a flash drive. Thanks
Would like more keyboard shorts. Specially one to save to a previously set up default format and folder. Automatic numbering to that folder would be great too. The Program Preferences>Options don’t seem to give access to these kind of semi-permanent changes.
Otherwise I love it!
For some reason when I do a copy from Snag-It9 and try to paste it in an AOL email it does not give me a paste option. Help?
Thank you.=
As others have said, we need the ability edit the default styles. I also think there is mismatch of screen real estate used on the default styles vs their functionality.
For example: Snagit9 have 6 large box pictures of styles I do not want. As a result, I have some bad choices.
I have to PAY ATTENTION and to to the VERY SMALL drop down arrow to see my options. I have to scroll through shapes I do not want to see. Then I again need to PAT ATTENTION and hit TWO LITTLE boxes to set my color to the option I picked from the drop down. This is far slower than snagi8 8, because in 8 I could at least select my default shape and the color would be retained from my last use.
What I need is the options to:
1.Set a top row of default shapes and colors.
2.Allow me to change the default colors of all the remaining drop down shapes.
Again, a for instance. Your current default colors may work ok on light backgrounds. They do NOT work well on dark backgrounds: Stock charts for example that often use black. For a dark background I want a BRIGHT red or green or yellow. With snagit 9 (WHICH I LOVE! ESPECIALLY THE MULTIPLE AUTOMATIC SAVE BAR BELOW.) I now have to CHANGE EVERY drawing object EVERY TIME I use it, once to access it, then again to color it.
Maybe these features are already there and I just do not know how to set them.
thank you for a most wonderful product.
and for other readers, my most favorite utilities are
Snagit-to save, edit (into icons too) and share screenshots
Kavoom-a multi monitor software kv switch
the 1995 Norton filemanager that still works, even with vista. It is FAST.
Anyplace Control-to trouble shoot other computers in the house.
We need to option to have Snagit save it’s data base files on a different drive or partition. For those of use who want to keep our C:\ drive small. As it is now all the files are saved at c:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\TechSmith\SnagIt\DataStore6E729B0-D90C-4127-BB6E-38AE79647955.SNAG
I would like to be able to repeatedly take the same snapshot of a changing screen by a single click or key.
Its a bit like having a camera on a tripod with a remote ‘capture’ button – it snags the same scene again when I determine that it had changed.
Webinars with power point slides are a great example of the need. I would like to select the region/window to snag and when it changes I want to take another snapshot without having to laboriously select the region/window again.
A neat option is if SnagIt could auto-detect when a region has changed then snag automatically.
At the end, my gallery would have all the screen captures neatly arranged and ready to be further processed.
I would like to see a tool that turns your pointer back to an ordinary pointer after you have used a tool on the Draw canvas.
It would be nice to see a more modern appearance for the utility also.
It would be nice to have the option to save the catalogue content to a memory stick or other location.
Lots more stamps please………
Better quality video would be great!
SnagIt 9 is a solid step forward with the Captures Tray, Keywords and Tags etc etc. But English is not my mother tongue, so I would like to edit/change the Tags’ names, and also their icons. I can add any keyword from any language, hence the Tags should be able to edit and to add some more – like you can do with Categories in Outlook 2007.
Thanks for a great product.
In Snagit 9 could you look at providing an alternative lighter skin on the top tool bar – I find the very small icons don’t show up very well against the dark background of the tool bar, particularly the rotate icons. Slightly larger icons on the toolbar would also be very welcome !
Please create an output for Evernote
I have a query, When I want to capture some screen one by one, but I also want to add some text to every screen I capture. I think this feature is not available.
Can any one know it..?
I think this is a great product at a great price and I recommend it to anyone without hesitation. Could we please have an add-in to send to a Lotus Notes document…? I think I am a lone voice here which is a worry since I would be the first to agree Notes is a corporate tool more than a consumer tool… but there are 50 millions seats out there..
I have no desire to save the vast majority of captures to Snagit. Yet deleting the capture also sends it to the recycle bin from wherever (desktop or folder) it has been saved. Have to retrieve it from the recycle bin each time. I;m reverting to v. 8.2 until this gets fixed.
also the teensy size of the undo, redo, print, save, etc buttons is difficult and the black interface only makes it worse.
I recently created a document in which I captured screen shots and sent them to a MS Word document. This usually works fine; but in the latest version the software became confused. I had the Word document open; and I was in the process of composing a new email message in Outlook, so that window was also open. The screen capture was sent to the Outlook email message instead of the Word document. This happened several times and each time I selected the Word output feature.
I am using SnagIt a lot also to batch-convert images (from PNG to JPG, for example).
Since v8, the usability of this feature was greatly degraded relatively to v7, and v9 didn’t change anything
– SnagIt doesn’t remember former conversion directory
– right-clicking the icon doesn’t contain anymore the link to batch convert, so I am obliged to open, etc…
I’d like these simple features to be back in 9.1…
I would love to have an easier way to do the scroll features. Try as I might, many times when I try to secure part of the window on the auto-scroll feature(s), it takes only part of the image and not the entire portion that I want. This is a great feature, but need for it to be easier…or I need to be faster. *)8-D
Can Snagit 9 open and edit pdf files, and then save the edited file? If not, this woud be a great added feature.
Thanks, Sam
An output to Evernote would be great.
When I capture images, I print and save the image before I move to the next one I want to capture. If I get interrupted for whatever reason, I’ve found myself wondering if I had saved the current image. The screen that appears when I capture an image does not display a file name after an image is saved and you are returned to the initial screen. I’m comparing this operation to the save operation in other applications such as Word or Visio and most other document applications that I am familiar with.
It would be nice if the file name that I gave the current image appeared somewhere on the screen after it is saved and I return to the initial image screen so I can verify that I have, in fact, saved the current image. This would prevent redundant saving and naming of images because I usually employ a generic naming scheme that defines an image category and I only change the number that is a part of the file name to save time when I’m capturing a large number of images. I need to ensure that a needed image is not accidently discarded and lost. If this information is already available somewhere on the Snagit capture screen please let me know. Thank You
IMP: The Vertical Auto-Scroll is only from TOP-to-BOTTOM of a scroll window. How about BOTTOM-to-TOP? Didn’t anyone thought about that? I tried everything and couldn’t configure it with that option, because that was ‘my requirement’.
Best,
Nik
Hello Nik,
Thank you for your tip. Why would bottom to top be interesting? The outcome would be the same wouldn’t it?
Peter,
SnagitGuide
Please add an autonumber labeller like in fullshot. I want to click on the capture and have a label added with the number being auto-incremented every time I add a label. This makes documenting a screen layout very easy when using Fullshot…
Would love for Snagit to have the ability to open and edit pdf files, and then save the edited file. I have version 9 and unless I am missing something it doesn’t have this capability.
thank you
Would you be able to fix the audio on snagit?
everything else is perfect it’s just the audio,
its always all fuzzy and I cant fix it…
is their any way to fix it?
You are most likely recording through the microphone. You are then not only recording the computer sound but also the surroundings. Try changing your computers recording settings.
As I run a seniors website where I am often asked to solve PC problems, using Snagit to capture images etc is fine as I can add text, call outs, arrows etc……but using Video capture would also like on some of the frames to be able to do the same IE add text…anyway of doing this?? Thanks
Cool, I like the way you deal with your customers, feeback and acting upon it.
But the next time you need a reflection shadow, give me a call and I would be happy to help you out :p
I used snagit very succesfully with windows XP but am having a horrible time using it with my new laptop and Windows Vista. My computer keeps freezing and I have to shut it down completely as the escape key doesn’t even work. What can I do it is so frustrating as I need to use it for my class notes. I have asked for help before but never receive a reply I don’t think I can be the only one having this problem. Please please help me. pr do I have to abandon it.
Hi Biddy,
It is very doubtful that it’s Snagit causing this. Perhaps Snagit in connection with another software. You should definitely contact in-product support to see what the cause can be and include as much info as possible.
They always answer support so no worries.
Contact support here:
http://techsmith.custhelp.com/
Best Regards,
Peter Gillberg
Snagit Guide
is there a way to paste into a new email message using lotus notes?
Layers! I need desperately to save callouts, etc. in layers in PSD format.
Keep up the wonderful work!
Hello,
I have a Question about using snagit software. recently i captured an image using snagit to paste into my powerpoint presentation but noticed that the quality of the capture is different from the powerpoint image i copied from snagit. the image in the powerpoint looks so blurry and the text becomes really bold. i tried adjusting the resoultion but it doesn’t make any difference.
Can you please help.!!!
Would love to be able to save multiple captures in a single PDF file, which would have 1 page per image.
Would also love to not only be able to shrink image to the size of a page in the PDF, but also enlarge (maintinging aspect ratio) an image to the size of a page.
I would love to see Snagit with direct output to Evernote. Please!
my snagit 5 document isnt opening how can i open it
Hi Justin, sorry I don’t understand your question, can you please add more information?
Seconding Joe Fulmers comment made two years back
Would love to be able to save multiple captures in a single PDF file, which would have 1 page per image.